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babylonsister

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Tue Aug-03-10 06:35 AM
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Rand Paul Opens Mouth Again

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/76734/rand-paul-opens-mouth-again

Rand Paul Opens Mouth Again
Jonathan Chait

Rand Paul again makes the mistake of letting his true beliefs slip:

"The bottom line is I'm not an expert, so don't give me the power in Washington to be making rules. You live here, and you have to work in the mines. You'd try to make good rules to protect your people here. If you don't, I'm thinking that no one will apply for those jobs. I know that doesn't sound..." Here he stumbles, trying to parse his words properly but only presaging his campaign misstep. "I want to be compassionate," he concludes, "and I'm sorry for what happened, but I wonder: Was it just an accident?"

Rand is espousing the pure laissez faire idea that safety rules are unnecessary, because workers can choose not to accept jobs from employers that feature unsafe working conditions. Thus the market is self-correcting. That this theory bears no relationship whatsoever to observed reality -- America before workplace safety rules was extremely dangerous for workers -- but reality is not Rand Paul's concern.

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Tue Aug-03-10 06:38 AM
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1. Typical Libertarian logic..

... which is to say as logical as a three year old talking about nuclear fission.

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Herr Garbitsch

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Tue Aug-03-10 06:49 AM
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5. Paul is actually worse than that.

He is a protoge of the late Murray Rothbard. He is an anarcho-capitalist.

It is a cousin of objectivism.

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CBGLuthier

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Tue Aug-03-10 06:41 AM
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2. He is a fool of the first order

There isn't a worker in a mine who bemoans federal rules.

I guess carpet baggers think everyone can just go somewhere else to get a job when the coal mine is the only job for a town.

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sendero

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Tue Aug-03-10 06:43 AM
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3. This is TEXTBOOK..

... Libertarian "thinking", which is why I consider all real Libertarians RETARDED, PRODUCTS OF SOME SPECIAL FLAVOR OF ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT.

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zbdent

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Tue Aug-03-10 06:46 AM
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4. Remember Repugs/"liberal media" making mountains out of Obama's middle name?

Here's a guy who changed his name to honor an ATHEIST ... Ayn Rand was an avowed atheist ... which made the conservatives/religious reich cringe ...

but, you aren't going to hear that over the cacophony of those questioning Obama's birth certificate ...

(side note: Why is it that DU's spellchecker flags Obama as a misspell???)

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babylonsister

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Tue Aug-03-10 07:17 AM
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6. That's a darn fine point; who knew IOMIYAR applies to religion, too!

Or the lack thereof.

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